Maybe You Don’t Need to Talk to Someone

Re:Maybe You Don’t Need to Talk to Someone by GavinMcG on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:01PM (#35202099)

As a man, talk therapy has worked wonders for me. No individual tool will fix the underlying cause, of course, and I also benefit greatly from weightlifting and other exercise.

If therapy is less immediately effective for men, that may signal a greater need for it, not a lesser one. Learning to understand and experience one's emotions is both a skill therapy can develop and one that is needed for therapy (or journaling, etc.) to be maximally effective.

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Re:Maybe You Don’t Need to Talk to Someone by SketchySeaBeast on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:15PM (#35202298)

And as a complete counter example, I find it useful but my wife does not. It doesn't seem to be a gender thing, but rather a personality thing, which may or may not line up along gender lines.

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